Apparently it's important to distinguish Walter E. Williams from Walter Williams, who is a commie economist. Walter E. Williams, on the other hand, is a conservative nitwit. His latest article talks about Black Education; explaining that it's the things that don't cost any money that make a school. For example, kids using foul language and loitering around in the hallways hurt grades (I know they didn't help mine any). In successful schools, the parents are involved; the teachers are demanding. He then says, "None of these ingredients are budget-busters, but if they're not present, no matter how high the budget, education won't occur.
The cruelest hoax of it all is the fraud perpetrated on black students and their parents. This was forcefully brought home to me over the holidays in a conversation with an in-law who boasted about how his son, a senior, was on his school's honor roll at one of Philadelphia's inner-city high schools.
While it was not thrilling, honesty compelled me to inform him that the average black high school graduate has an academic achievement level on par with that of an average white seventh-grader. His son's A's and B's would probably translate into C's, D's and F's at most other high schools."
Basically the education system doesn't fail Black Kids. The Black Kids and their families fail the system. Therefore, presumably, there's no need to worry about educating black kids. If they don't get the education they need, it's their won fault.
Also, on another note, what a total jerk Walter E. Williams is. He really told an in-law that his child was probably just as succesful as a white seventh grader? What a jerk.
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